The wheat and the chaff.

I speak these things to you through a glut of faith, knowing full well having received the grace of God in ways without measure.

Faith assures of one thing: 

not in regards the drinking of alcohol,

or the marrying of one woman,

or tossing teacups

or petticoats in pews

or planting George Washingtons like apple seeds.

Faith assures us that an implacable, indifferent universe which part and parcel of the Lord our God

is good.

100%.

In doubt, the absence of God, we are, in fact, in a theological version of hell, that which is enunciated so graciously in textbook language to reflect a great myriad of troubles.

A world of troubles,

but a world imbued with a some small piece of faith that propels one over and above such unmerciful.

We have all, indeed, received mercy, just as all have sinned(Romans 3:23): and not merely that the just have received mercy, or the faithful have received mercy, but included are those which exist in the impolite corners of the inner regions of hell, including all the addicted, the lepers, the layperson, the shunned.  God is with them too, in forms that aren't revealed to us.

The wheat and the chaff are cut from the field together; as our book says, "it rains upon the just and the unjust alike", "i reckon there have not been troubles that are uncommon to man".

It is our faith.

Our faith is the calling unto all believers into a portion of joy, hope, peace, and even if we never even so much as sensed it, mercy.

faith, teachings of the natural world, look here haters, a visage marred; nations sprinkled

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than Godly edifying which is in faith."  

Our Lord uses the world to teach us, and in the world, our teachings, our textbooks and classroom that we too take up, each day.

"Display me as a token for the good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed, because thou hast helped me and comforted me, O Lord." Psalm 86

"...his visage was more marred than any man, 

and his form more than the sons of men;

so shall he sprinkle many nations;

the kings shall shut their mouths at him;

for that which had not been told them shall they see;

and that which they had not heard shall they consider."

-Isaiah 52

Of Dust and Mud. From Sept-Oct 2025.